Dataset

Marine records from the First Bird Atlas, Birdlife Australia (1976-1984)

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Records collected by Birds Australia between 1977 and 1981, each survey was ascribed to a grid with the coords given as the central point. Grids size varied, with most being 10-minute grids or 1-degree grids. This dataset is a subset of marine species downloaded from ALA https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/dr571 on 2020-07-14. Many records have missing dates but the data has been collected between 1976 and 1984.

Citation: (2023): Marine records from the First Bird Atlas, Birdlife Australia (1976-1984). v1.9. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_dr571&v=1.9

Published: June 28, 2023 at 04:34

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ala_dr571

69,051
occurrence records
87
taxa
85
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 66,870
96.8%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 44,599
64.6%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 21,890
31.7%

Measurement types

DNA derived data